Back in the middle Sixties, the Germans brought us the Amphicar. It was a quaint looking little car boat combo powered by a Triumph Herald engine putting out a whopping 38 horsepower. This made for top speeds of 7 knots on water and 70 mph on land. It sat 4 people and more or less bobbed around in the water looking rather like it was about to lose the buoyancy battle. Not exactly the right machine to cruise the beach in search of frauleins.
In more recent years, the boys at Top Gear have tried to make a number of different 4 wheeled contraptions float with varying levels of failure. If I recall correctly, all but one of these ended up on the bottom. Again, not something the birds are going to flock to.
It seems that it takes an American gearhead to build a machine worth of cruising for chicks at Lake Havasu.
Californian Dave March saw the similarities between modern car and boat construction and thought the time had come for a real amphibious car. One that can go fas on land and water. The result is the Corvette engined Python, a hand built machine with your choice of over 60,000 exterior colors and more than 4,000 interior colors. In fact, just about everything on the Python is custom for each buyer. The price? Just $200,000 usd!
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the performance. How does a mid 12 second 1/4 mile sound? Top speed on water is 60 mph while stop light to 60 comes up in just 4.5 seconds!
It would appear that the ladies like it too!